Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating
Helps practitioners evaluate whether investing in local AI setups is worthwhile for their privacy and workflow needs.
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A Verge reviewer documents their journey experimenting with local AI models on high-end hardware, exploring privacy benefits and practical challenges of running LLMs locally.
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Baby’s first local AI agent. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it's increasingly possible to run powerful models locally to see what they're capable of. Is this tech so useful that it's worth throwing gobs of money at a computer or a laptop with lots of overpriced RAM? I'll try to help you find out. I'm n